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TIL that during Dean Smith's tenure as head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, 96.6% of his players received their degrees and he also helped pioneer desegregation by recruiting their first black scholarship player, Charlie Scott.

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VMYQZ TIL that in 1971, Private Eye magazine responded to a legal threat by telling the complainant to “fuck off”.
Brkpk TIL Betty White was good friends with famed author John Steinbeck. White's husband Allen Ludden attended the same school as Steinbeck's wife Elaine. The couples became close friends and Steinbeck gave an early draft of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech to Ludden for his birthday.
NxQe TIL that the Pyramids of Giza were originally covered in white limestone
e0yWg TIL Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives. Banting's co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for $1
NX0Y1 TIL that the Portuguese Man-of-War is a colony of organisms not just one big scary jellyfish